... way that almost distracts the reader from the true outcome. For example "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" was written in anachronic order starting off by telling a story during the civil war era about how a man is about to be hanged. Then the story then changes direction by ... the plot too soon. "If foreshadowing is completely implicit, the reader realizes its meaning only later only later in retrospect. If it is explicit with partial information the reader is forced t to fill in the information gap in her mental representation of the story." (Spierling 157) For instance, ... Bierce...

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